Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
By Irving Stone
Categories: History
Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840–1900 (1956) is a work of narrative history by Irving Stone, author of Lust for Life and The Agony and the Ecstasy. It won the 1956 Spur Award for nonfiction. Stone tells how the American Far West, from California and Nevada to Utah and Colorado, was opened and settled, following explorers, miners, Mormon pioneers, railroad builders and fortune hunters through gold and silver strikes, ambition and hardship.